Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Gilbert K. Chesterton